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What Baking Powder Shall We Use:

This plain question comes home to ev-
cry housekeeper. We all desire pure and
wholesome food, and this cannot be had
with the of impure or poisonous baking
powder. There can be no longer a question
that all the cheaper lower grades of baking
powders contain either alum, lime or phos-
phatic acid. AS 10th may be to ad-
NIT so much against what may have been
some of our household gods, there can be
no gainsaying the unanimous testimony of
the official chemists. Indeed, analysts seem
to find no baking powder entirely free from
some one of these Objectionable ingredients
except the Royal, and that they report as
chemically pure. We find some of the Bak-
ing Powders advertised as pure, to contain,
under the tests of Profs. Chandler, Habir-
shaw and others, nearly twelve per cent.
of lime, while others made from alum
with no cream of tartar. This, we presume
accounts for their lack of leavening power As
sometimes complained of by the cook, and
for the bitter taste found in the biscuits SO
frequently complained ofby ourselves.
But aside from the inferiority of the work
done by these powders, the psychologists
assure us that lime and alum taken into the
system in such quantities this are injur-
ious. They are not decomposed by heat nor
dissolved in mixing or baking. They 60
with the bread, therefore, into the stomach,
where their physiological effects are indiges-
| ton, dyspepsia, or worse evils.
| The question naturally arises, why do
these cheap baking powder makers Use
these things? Alum is three cents pound,
| lime still cheaper, while cream of tartar
costs thirty five forty. The reasons for
the chemical purity of the Royal Baking
| Powder were recently given in the New
| York Times in an Interesting description of
/ new method for regning argols, or crude
cream of tartar. 1t seems that i. is only
| under this process that cream of tartar can
| be freed from the lime natural to it and
rendered chemically pure; that the patents
and plant for this cost the Royal Baking
| Powder Company about half million dol
lars, and that they maintain exclusive con-
troll Of the rights.
Prot. Mclntrie, late chief chemist of the
Department OF Agriculture at Washington,
! ID. c., III the interests of commerce made an
examination of this process, and reported
upon the results attained in the refined
cream of tartar. The following extract
from his report would seem to answer the
question repeated at the head of this article
and which is so frequently propounded by
the house-keeper
Il have examined the cream Of tartar
used by the Royal Baking Powder Company
in the manufacture of their baking powder,
and find it to be perfectly pure, and free
from lime in any form. The chemical tests
to which | have submitted the Royal Bak-
ing Powder prove it perfectly healthttll, and
free from any deleterious substance"
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EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

In Canada there are seven schools for the
education of the deaf.
Harvard's gymnasium cost $4,000, Yale's
$125, 900 and Columbia's s156,0O0.
The largest graduating class in the world
is that Of the Cbautauqua university. In
1856 4, 1924 graduated
Columbia college numbers more students,
in all its departments, than any other college
in the United States.
Out of IL ,0Oo alumni of the University Of
Paris statistic; snow that 3,1S6 are studying
law and 1865 pursuing medical course,
while only - felt called to study theology.
The headquarters of spelling reformers who
attend the meeting of the National Educa-
tional association at Chicago, July IL to Is,
will be at the office of o. c. Blackmer, 206
La Sale street.
Princeton college has received from the
family of the late Francis Biddle, of Phila-
delphia (Princeton 75) memorial gift of
money which will furnish, among other
things, annual prize of $25 for the best
English essay by sophomore.
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There was snowfall ON the Peaks
Of Otter, near Lynchburg, Va, on
Sunday.
Rev. DR.. Hawthorne is no doubt
the most eloquent and attractive liv-
ing Baptist minister in the South. A
congregation in ST. Louis have invited
him to become their pastor at salary
of $4,000. He is a great favorite at
Atlanta and it is thought he will de-
cline the invitation
Durham Plant: The new bag ma
chimes invented by Mr.. Will 81, Kerr
are in place and ready for work. Mr..
Kerr is North Carolinian. son of
the late w. G. Kerr, who was for many
years State Geologist. He has been
in Ilion, N. Y, for more than year
perfecting the machines and superin-
tending their construction, and now
comes back to his State to make his
fortune and enjoy his triumph. "There
is life in the old land yet
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GREETING,

With this issue The SENTINEL,
this paper falls into our hands. We
come among you, people of Winston
Salem, and to take our part in the
busy life OF the Twin City. We ex-
pect to become part and parcel of you.
Your advancement and glory shall
also be ours. And we feel sure that
We shall get your hearty support. In
saying this, we feel that we risk moth
ing. Your push and generosity and
cordiality have already been felt and
appreciated. And while we shall la
Dor for your advancement along every
line, we shall always have ready
word for everything commendable in
the surrounding country and through
out the commonwealth.
In politics, The SENTINEL in I'M
eompromisingly Democratic with
charity for all and malice towards
none. It believes in the principles OF
the Democratic party and shall fear
lessly uphold its doctrines.
1t shall always be the duty and
pleasure of The SENTINEL to advertise
to the world the advantages Of this
section of the State-its products, eli
mate and business opportunities, and
to induce immigration of the light
kind of men.
Finally, The SENTINEL hopes to be
welcome visitor to every Preside
hopes to be bright, crisp, clean, newsy
and progressive.
VERNON w. LONG.
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SOME WELL KNOWN WOMEN,

Queen Kapiolan is allowed $4,000 a year
by the Hawaiian government
Up to the present time Mrs Grants re-
ceipts froI, the sale of the generals memoirs
amount to 1894 ,459
Princess Dolgouriki, widow of Gar Alex
ander II, is one of the chief leaders of
Partisan society. Her receptions are noted
for the high literary and artistic rank of the
guests.
Mrs. Jenness Miller, the dress reformer of
VI ashington, delivered an address before the
students of Fassar college the other day and
the girls agreed to wear a costume without
corsets, TO be designed by Mrs. Miller
Miss Holly has just completed new book,
Samantha at Saratoga" which is the outcome
of the season spent there last year by Josiah
Aliens wife The book will be issued by
Messrs Hubbard Brothers, a Philadelphia.
Mrs Levi P. Morton gave reception to
Miss Ada Leigh, founder of the young mems
home and club in Paris, who has already
raised 100000 a building fund. Other
American women have seconded Miss Leighs
efforts.
The lady members of the New York board
of education Mrs. Agnew and Miss Dodge
pay especial attention to the sanitary con-
dition of the schools They attend particu-
larly to all matters relating to comfort in the
ana nOllcS lizzie tfe1ecCS liable to
escape the attention of men.
Miss Sophie Markle, who was reported en-
gagged to Secretary Bayard, has recently
made valuable find at her old family home
stead.s 1t consists of autograph letters en-
bracing at least one from each president from
Washington to Arthur When arranged the
collection will be worth a good round sum.
Mrs. Mary L. Bart who is making herself
famous writer of Scotch dialect stories,
hardly touched pen to paper up to the age of
"a. She lost her husband, who was military
governor of Texas, and seven children in the
space of twenty-four hours from yellow fever,
and found herself left with four little ones
and fifty cents in her hands. In course of
time she drifted to New York and became a
governess in the family of A. 7. Stew
arts partners. Her first tale, which was
written at the request of her employer, dealt
with life in the old days in Texas, and found
! publisher with ease.
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Gen. John Pope has stirred som e of
our New England friends by his as
sertion in the North american Review
that during our civil war New Eng
land produced neither great soldier
nor a statesman of commanding in
fuence. He says that the tendency
of New England education has been
and is .'to turn out men as much alike
as buttons from a factory
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HERE AND THERE.

In 1877 there were only $50 postoffices in
the United States.
A New York boy, chased by policeman
for bathing i'll the river, jumped into an ice
chest and was suffocated.
In Washington last week prisoner passed
off counterfeit dollar on police magistrate
in payment of the fine imposed.
white man in Atlanta has sued railroad
company because he was not allowed to ride
in the car set apart for colored people.
Five vessels from Dundee have been en-
ployed this season in the Newfoundland seal
fishery, and they have caught 50,950 seals, as
against Al $50 last year.
Bunker Hill monument was entirely COM
pleted on the Esd of July, 1872 The obelisk
is so feet square at the base, Is feet square at
the top and 22i feet high. 1t is built of
Quincy granite.
A plant has been discovered in India which
is said to destroy the power of tasting sugar.
1t will be useful in cOunteracting morbid
appetite for sweetmeats, which is active
promoter of indigestion. Another plant in
Madras destroys the relish for cigars and to-
bacco Thus two important curatives are
added to the materia medica.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has written the
opening article for the "Beecher Memorial"
now being prepared for Mrs. Beecher and her
family by Mr.. Edward w. Box, of Brook
lyn, n. Y, to which Mr.. Gladstone, Presi-
dent Cleveland, the Duke of Argyle and some
seventy-five other distinguished Americans
and foreigners have also contributed articles
Only 100 copies of the Memorial" are in
tended for the public.
The number eighteen played an important
part in the life of the poet Longfellow. He
was is years old when he graduated from
college; eighteen years afterward he married
a second time; he lived with his wife eighteen
years, and at the age of e it had been
eighteen years since she died Four eighteens
make up his life at this point, and he had
been eighteen years professor at Harvard
college and had published just eighteen sep
arate volumes of poems.
Tennessee has two streams called Daddy
and Nanny creeks. They were named away
back when the state was first settled A
husband and wife riding along on horseback
began quareling, and when they arrived at
the first stream the former soundly cuffed his
wife He then named the stream Daddy
creek. They jogged along still quarreling
till they came to the second creek, when the
woman picked up the limb Of a tree and felled
her companion and triumphantly named the
water Nanny creek.
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SOME GEOGRAPHICAL ITEMo.

Gordon Cumming likened an African
Jungle to forest of fish hooks relieved by an
occasional patch Of penknives.
The highest mountain in the world is said
to be Mount Hercules in New Guinea, soar
ing to the altitude of 81, 736 feet.
The Indian river in Florida is called the
straightest in the world. A straight line can
be drawn through seventy-five miles of it
without touching shore.
1.-THE name Itasca," says floating para
graph. @was given to the source of the Mis-
sissippi by Mr.. Schoolcraft, who coined it for
the occasion from the Latin veritas caput,
the true sources This is ingenious, but
Mr.. Schoolcraft was too good Latin scholar
to have made an adjective oat of 'veritas-"
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TO THE PATRONS OF THE SENTl-
MEL.

As will be seen from the announce
ment in another column, The SENTI-
MEL, with this issue, passes into the
hands of Mr.. Vernon w. Long, late
of Orange county, and recently grad
uated from the State University at
Chapel Hill.
Mr.. Long is gentleman of ability,
and writer for whom the future has
many laurels in store. He is not an
entire stranger to the readers of The
SENTINEL, az many of our readers
will remember his connection with
this paper during the summers of 1888
and 1886, when he prepared the care
fully written reports of the college
commandments, which many of our
readers will recall wsth pleasure.
During the past two years he has Off
ciated as one of the editors, and as
business manager of the University
Magazine, which under his manage
ment has enjoyed season of prosper
ity unusual in college journalism.
[ welcome my friend and successor
to the editorial chair of The SENTI-
MEL, and bespeak for him the same
liberal patronage that has metamor-
phosed The SENTINEL from a dingy
seven-column folio of less than four
hundred subscribers to handsome six
column quarto of nearly as many
thousand readers.
Very respectfully,
EDWARD A. OLDHAM.
Winston, ~ c., June 16, 1887.
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ANOTHER ATLANTA EXPOSITION.

ANOTHER ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
Everybody remembers the Atlanta
Cotton Exposition of 1881. Then it
was that Northern and foreign capital
began to flow southwark. North
Carolina made an exhibit there, and
followed it up later at Boston and New
Orleans; and all know how well it
paid Now Atlanta comes forward
with Piedmont Exposition. 1t opens
on Oct 10th and holds two weeks.
President Cleveland has promised to
be present. Railroad rates will be
Greatly reduced. Here is fine chance
for Winston and Piedmont North
Carolina to do the handsome and pay
ing thing. The Piedmont Exposition
will surpass in most respects the Cot
ton Exposition Of 1881. Let orr
people make prompt applications for
space. Mr.. c. A. Collier is President,
Mr.. Henry w. Grady is Vice-Presi-
dent, and Mr.. w. III. Smyth is Secre-
tary. We must move in the matter.
We are persuaded that our people can
and will make as good showing there
as any people to be found. As the
AsheviNe Citizen says in regard to the
matter, "Let us be up and doing"
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HOADLY ON CLEVELAND.

cleveland will be nominated by
reclamation, said Ex-Governor Hoa6 :
ly. "There is certainly no question
about this, and he will be elected"
The Governor also stated that he hi M
ielf was not an aspirant for the Su-
preme Bench chat position should
go to the South, and | think it will, ;"
said he"
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s The patrons Of THE SENTINEL ,ghi!
isiting Ne,o York cas1 -f1sd this paper on fill
the Newspaper Room o. 4Nessrs. George P
HsueN q Co, 10 Spruce Street.
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Personal.

Prof. J. A Holt, of Oak Ridge,
and Prof. j. M. Weatherly, OF James
town, were in the city this week at
tending Salem Commencement.
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Col. Chas. r. Jones has been sue
ceeded by Mr. III. A. Deal as editor
of the Charlotte Observer.
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siaae contracted for has expired, charged tran
sient rates for time actually published.
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Mr.. Kerr Craige, of Salisbury, was
Tuesday appointed Collector of In ter
nal Revenue in place of Col. A. j.
Boyd
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~ Reading notices Inserted at the rates of
20 cts line for EACH INSERTION. No notice
counted less than three lines, for sohich IS cts is
eharqed and a0lttch must BE- paid aoih copy or
ast inserted. We can not ope7, an account for
this size advertisement. To permanent adUe1-
tssers toe ofer the foLLos0inq discount:
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g- AdUertisers 51io desire changes IN thei
advertisements mast SeI IL COPY not later thn
Monday noon to arsure csc1'qe.
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Me advertisements . Be- inserted sverg
ether ,reek and iar5rg sDscia! position wiU be
charged 10 percent EXTRA
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The Southern Woman, Established June IS. 1885
Consolidated with The Sentinel Oct. 7, 1885,
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The Winston Leader, Established January Fl, 1878,
Consolidated with The Sentinel. October list, 1885.
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE16, 1887
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Conducted by
We NON w. LONG,

AND ABLY ASSISTED BY 4 LARGER AND
MORE THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED CORPS
OF CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBU-
TORS, THAN THAT ENGAGED BY ANY
OTHER JOURNAL N NORTH CAROLINA
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AProgressre-Democratic Fam
lily Newspaper, issued every Thurs
day Morning and mailed to sub
scribers at S1.5O a year.
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The New South, Wilmington, N. c.. Established May
sst, 1892. Consolidated with The Sentinel, April 1st
1893.
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~E SENTINEL HAS THE LARGEST
CIRCULATION IN WINSTON SALEM,
FORSYTH COUNTY, AND THE 5TH CON
GRESsIONAL DISTRICT. IT IS THERE
FORE THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM
WITHIN THIS TERRITORY. RATES MADE
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EDWARD A. OLDHAM.
Winston, n. O., June 16, 1887.
Crystal River current., 1887-04-23

WORLDS DlsPEMsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
a11aiua nuEF n
Crystal River current., 1887-04-23
Nothing can be farther from our in.

Nothing can be farther from our in.
tention than to speak as if Mr.. Brown
ing's new book were not worthy Of
him. and gift of value to students OF
poetry. We would only note the rude
ness of that poetic form which Socrates
or Rabelais might have compared to the
images Of Sileni-rugged without, full
of sweet perfume within. But extreme
admirers of poet are apt to make
fashion Of admiring his least admirable
qualities. As for the wisdom within, it
displays what Mr.. Matthew Arnold ex-
cellently calls ''the moderate, gracious,
amiably human insticts of the true
poetic nature" He who would be con-
vinced of this, and who knows the pic
lures. rich in the same qualities, Of
Francesca Furini. has only to read the
poem ON that artist. No less noble,
kindly, and wise is the poem on Chris
topher Smart, called kit" who said .
good and rude thing about Gray, and
also in lucid interval of brain disease
wrote powerful and passionate sacred
poem. In fact. this book is perhaps the
most welcome of his shorter works
that Mr.. Browning has given us since
"Dramatis Persons" It is a delight
full thing to find, with the old things to
protest against the old manliness, wis.,
dom, keen sight, and subtle reason to
praise in the works of so eminent and
veteran poet.-London NeaOs.
Crystal River current., 1887-04-23
Brave Chaska's Widow.

A short time ago an Indian woma n
familliarly known to the white people
as Lucy died in her unpretending hab-
itation at Mendoza. She was almost
as well known to the inhabitants of the
twin cities as the historical "Old Bets" :"
says The st. Paul Pioneer Press. By
the early settlres she was generally call
ed "La-ta" Cher lodge). and was the
wife of the celebrated Chaska. who
saved the life of Maj. George H. Spen-
Ger. late United States Indian agent at
the Grow Creek agency. Dakota, during
the outbreak of 1862. and who also
saved the lite of George A. Bracket.
of this city, in 1864. Mr.. Bracket and
Lieut.. Freeman of St. Cloud, had left
Gen. Sibley's command for the purpose
of hunting antelope. and suddenly and
unexpectedly encountered party of
hostile Sioux, who fired upon them kill
ing Freeman. At this juncture, Chas-
ka, who was scout accompanying the
Sibley expedition, appeared upon the
scene. Neither could understand the
language of the other, but Chaska
made Mr.. Bracket understand that the
only thing for him to do was to dis
mount, abandon his horse, and conceal
himself in some tall grass near by un-
til night, when he could emerge from
his place of concealment and rejoin the
command. Chaska then informed the
Indians that they had killed both white
men, and they soon took their depart
urc, after securing their horses and
equipments left by Messrs. Brackett and
Freeman. Mr.. Bracket obeyed his in
structions and escaped, making his way
back on foot to a supply camp which
had been established by Gen. Sibley a
few days previously.
1t will be remembered that some two
or three hundred women and children
were held as captives by the Indians,
and were subsequently released BY Gen.
Sibley. Some of these unfortunates
fell into good hands and were we'll treat
plorable often suffering from the pangs
abundance of food in the hostile camp.
The dead La-ti proved herself the fr end
of the captives. giving them food. at
tending them when sick. and trying to
cheer them up with assurances that
they would soon be restored to their
friends. Chaska demonstrated his
friendship for the whites in more ways
than one, and at last laid down his life
in the service of the government, which
was engaged against his own people.
The heroic conduct OF Chaska and the
noble. generous deeds of La-ti during
the bloody massacre of 1862 will long
be remembered.
Crystal River current., 1887-04-23
Truthful Thomas,

so Stanley headed another African
expedition" said Col Tom Ochiltree
the other day. lit is sixteen or seven
teen years since Stanley came to Eng
land after finding Livingstone. In
connection with his coming to London
Med Sothern. Steve Fiske and my
self perpetrated. perhaps, the most gi-
gantic practical joke in all history. l
was humble instrument for good in
the proceedings. It was the united
genius of Sothern and Fiske which con-
ceived the plan and put it IN train for
When it became known that Stanley
don the idea of a great dinner under
the auspices Of the Royal Geographical
society was suggested and rapidly took
the affair, when a dispatch arrived that
Stanley could not be in London for
three days. What was to be donep
We determined to have the dinner
anyway. Fiske came to mo in hot
haste. Did 1 know anything about
Stanley's books? Yes I had read every
line Of them. Had I read his recent
newspaper letter. had. .'Then."
said Fiske, you must be Stanley for this
performance only Fiske was to rep
resent the president Of the Geographic
al society. The cast was completed,
and the dinner was given. The repre-
sentatives Of the press were there, and
every detail was attended to. At the
proper time a toast was proposed to
the guest Of the evening. the great ex-
plorer. Stanley. and I responded. I
talked for nearly an hour. and the peo-
pie, at the dinner-table followed my
story Of finding Livingstone with rapt
attention. The little Frenchman who
kept the hotel whore the dinner was
given brought his children for Stanley
to pat them on the head. The great
est enthusiasm prevailed, and when ]
came out was cheered to the echo.
Stanley arrived in time. but the geuu.
inc dinner wasn't marker to the one
We gave. "--Nep York KaH and Es.
sSrsss